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Hundreds of old leather shoes have mysteriously washed up on a beach in the UK. Could a 19th-century Italian shipwreck be responsible for these lost
Ask someone to name a maritime disaster and chances are they’ll say Titanic, but compared to the Vasa, it did quite well. It took a
On July 8, 2000, Dave Shealy captured a creature on camera he had been tracking for decades: the Florida skunk ape. Few believed the state’s
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Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of eukaryotes, the domain of life defined by cells with a membrane-bound nucleus, which includes all animals, plants,
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Every day is a learning day, and we shouldn’t really mock people for learning something new. But a 39-year-old has recently told the Internet about
Werribee Open Range Zoo is celebrating their rhinoceros calf’s crossing of the 1 tonne threshold earlier this month. For a calf born underweight with big
In math, more than any other discipline, reputation is irrelevant. It’s not that it counts for nothing – but with vanishingly few exceptions, if you
Is there other life out there? “Pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space ‘Cause it’s bugger all down here on Earth,” sang Monty
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On September 12, 1940, a dog in France made one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student,
In just a decade, gravitational wave observatories have changed astronomy. In this short time, we have accumulated hundreds of detections, with many more coming. A
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has assured the country that “time is not broken”, after a power outage in Boulder, Colorado, caused
There are plenty of strategies in the animal world for surviving the winter; some, like the winners of Fat Bear Week, pile on the pounds
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